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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ly is at this time somewhat prominent in the public attention, if may not be uninteresting to the country to know a little of the antecedents of the gallant gentleman. Major Anderson's father and mother were both Virginians — the former, Richard C. Anderson, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental army at the end of the revolutionary war, and the latter, a Miss Marshall, a cousin to Chief Justice Marshall. While a Captain, this officer led the little band into New Jersey on the memorable Christmas night of 1770, which threw the Russian forces, at Trenton, off their guard, when the great attack was made. In this battle he was one of the few officers who were wounded. He was also in the battle of Brandywine, and in other actions in the North. But his services in the South are of more interest to us at this time.--He was at the sledge of Savannah, in 1779, and in endeavoring to scale the ramparts, was thrown, or fell, from such a height that he met with an injury by the shock from w